Justified Producers to Adapt Elmore Leonard’s Novels for TV Series

Deadline reported, Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman, who produced Justified, are teaming up again to adapt three of Elmore Leonard’s works.

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Written by Tod “Kip” Williams (Door in the Floor), the series adaptation is envisioned as focusing on one novel each season, with characters occasionally appearing in multiple seasons as they often did in Leonard’s novels. Additionally, novels may spawn related, but narratively original seasons, based on featured or tangential characters and storylines in the original books.Via their Timberman-Beverly production company, which is based at CBS TV Studios, the duo has optioned Unknown Man #89, Pagan Babies and Mr. Paradise andis actively exploring other Detroit novels by Leonard as well.

Timberman and Beverly will executive produce with Elmore Leonard’s son, author Peter Leonard (Quiver, Unknown Remains), and their frequent collaborator Kerry Schmidt. Producers are out to directors with the goal of bringing the project to market later this year.

Leonard, often called the “Dickens of Detroit” wrote 12 crime novels set in the once-heralded city. Once America’s third largest city, and by many measures its wealthiest, Detroit declared bankruptcy in 2013 and has seen the mass exodus of its once proud population.